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French lawmakers are looking to outlaw sex for money and impose fines of up to 3,500 euros on prostitutes' clients.

• 06 апреля 2016, 21:15

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk intends to introduce a ban on oil product imports from Russia.

• 06 апреля 2016, 19:33

Kazakhstan is set to enforce a ban on smartphones in the workplace for police and government workers in an effort to prevent information leaks, according to a document that was itself leaked,

• 24 марта 2016, 16:56

Over 70,000 people sign a petition to ban Donald Trump from entering Britain after his call to bar Muslims from entering the United States.

• 09 декабря 2015, 17:32

Kiev's public relations war with Moscow scaled new heights as Ukraine released a list of prominent Russian reporters and authors whose books will be banned from sale.

• 13 августа 2015, 12:14

Ukraine said it had blacklisted French film star and newly minted Russian national Gerard Depardieu in apparent retribution for reportedly refusing to recognise the independence of the former Soviet state.

• 29 июля 2015, 12:41

Disney became the latest major tourism operator to ban selfie sticks as part of a growing backlash against the extendable devices.

• 27 июня 2015, 12:51

European parliament head Martin Schulz said the Russian ambassador to the EU was barred access to the institution in retribution for a travel ban imposed by Moscow.

• 03 июня 2015, 14:29

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed the "absurdity" of EU complaints over a travel ban imposed by Moscow on 89 Europeans over the Ukraine crisis.

• 02 июня 2015, 11:57

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday enacted laws banning Soviet symbols and communist-era propaganda, his office said.

• 16 мая 2015, 13:15

Kazakhstan has introduced a 45-day ban on import of fuel from Russia. Some are worried that this will be the beginning of a new fuel deficit in the Central Asian economy. KazMunaiGas has a different view.

• 03 апреля 2015, 11:27

European Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan announced measures to raise pork prices to help the industry hit by a Russian embargo.

• 23 февраля 2015, 10:31

Media reports suggest that Kazakhstan may resort to restricting Russian imports due to the pressure its domestic market from the significantly cheaper products offered by its Northern neighbour.

• 19 февраля 2015, 01:31

Cheap gas from Russia can put a stop to the work of Kazakhstan’s oil refineries.

• 26 января 2015, 14:32

A Chinese city has banned schools from holding Christmas events, highlighting official suspicions about the increasingly popular festival because of its foreign origins.

• 25 декабря 2014, 14:03

Kazakhstan may introduce a ban on energy drinks.

• 29 ноября 2014, 14:11

British Prime Minister will promise to ban migrants from the European Union claiming welfare for their first four years in a drive to slash immigration.

• 28 ноября 2014, 14:44

Dutch officials banned the transport of poultry in the Netherlands after the discovery of a highly infectious strain of bird flu which could jump to humans.

• 17 ноября 2014, 10:59

A body tasked with policing the Internet laid down a two-month deadline for Iran's government to regularise the use of Instagram or access to the site would be blocked.

• 12 ноября 2014, 13:32

Russia may try to impose limitations on food transit from the European Union to Kazakhstan to prevent re-export of goods to Russia.

• 02 ноября 2014, 11:29